Product Review

THREE INNOCENT PEOPLE TRAPPED BY A STORM €“ AND A KILLER A hurricane swells outside, but it€s nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up €“ and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud€s the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world€s realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston cowrote and compellingly directs this fi lm of Maxwell Anderson€s 1939 play with a searing Academy Award-winning* performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco€s gold-hearted, boozy moll. In Huston€s hands, it becomes a powerful, sweltering classic.